Re: button_press_event for custom widget

["Florian Schaefer" <listbox netego de>]

Hi Tristan!

On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 09:50:21 -0500, Tristan Van Berkom said:

[...]
> Why are you creating a GtkDrawingArea ?, this widget already *is* a
> drawing area, "events" on this widget come from the gdk layer from

Ouch, that hurts. :-) That happens if one tries to do something while
knowing and understanding only half of what one does. But I have to admit
that it makes sense this way... ;-)

> `GTK_WIDGET(widget)->window', so usually you need to do
> gtk_widget_set/add_events (widget, event_mask), in the init function:
>
> gtk_spect_vis_init (GtkSpectVis *spectvis)
> {
>     GtkWidget *widget = GTK_WIDGET (spectvis);
>     gtk_widget_add_events (widget, GDK_BUTTON_PRESS_MASK);
> }

Thanks a lot. It actually works if one does it right.

Ciao
Florian

PS: Sorry for the delay in my reply but all my other mails had been
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